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Have you had the “time of your life” on Virgin Trains between 1997 and 2019, the length of its franchise? Richard Branson would like to think so in this vid from social media agency Cubaka featuring some B-listers (and himself) ...

Virgin Trains may be on its way out as holder of the UK’s West Coast franchise in a row with the UK government over pensions. Companies like Virgin Trains, which is owned by Stagecoach and Richard Branson’s empire, are rather ...

We don’t usually do “info posters,” out of home installations that give you information because, well, there are so many of them. But Virgin Trains, Anomaly and media agency Manning Gottlieb are running a campaign telling motorists how much quicker ...

Anomaly is making its debut for important new client Virgin Trains, asking us if we prefer “Spandau or speedcore.” Speedcore, it seems, is loud, aggressive music (you can also have thrashcore should you be especially brave) while Spandau refers not ...

Anomaly appears to be on a roll, winning a big industry award in the US and Diet Coke and now its British outpost is reported to have won Virgin Trains against pretty stiff competition from Grey, Lucky Generals and Y&R. ...

Creston’s TMW unlimited describes itself as an “intelligent influencer” agency – WTF is that? No wonder clients are confused. Anyway it seems to be the driving force behind the mini-marcoms group and has enlisted good old innuendo in a new ...

There seems to be an unwritten code in adland not to offer up public criticism on creative work. It is odd really because in other creative arenas reviews are quite the norm – in theatre, music, art, TV, film, etc. ...

Virgin Trains has added the East Coast line to its West Coast operation, which means there are now two monopoly operations charging ridiculously high fares if you want to travel today or the next day/week. But Virgin companies don’t let ...

A sign of things to come? When I spotted the new campaign for Virgin Trains I expected something exceptional but was left feeling something was missing. The client was keen to point out their roster of agencies on the case: ...